THE WINDOW IN THE WALL: Reflections on the Holy Eucharist

by Ronald Knox

1956. First Edition. 130 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled.

Genres: Theology

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1956

About the author

Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was a Roman Catholic priest, theologian, author of detective stories, as well as a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio.

Knox had attended Eton College and won several scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 and was appointed chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, but he left in 1917 upon his conversion to Catholicism. In 1918 he was ordained a Catholic priest. Knox wrote many books of essays and novels. Directed by his religious superiors, he re-translated the Latin Vulgate Bible into English, using Hebrew and Greek sources, beginning in 1936.

He died on 24 August 1957 and his body was brought to Westminster Cathedral. Bishop Craven celebrated the requiem mass, at which Father Martin D'Arcy, a Jesuit, preached the panegyric. Knox was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Mells.

Reviews

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read chapters during my Eucharistic Adoration hour each week. It made a difference.

Knox's insight and how he connects scriptures and current events & culture with the meaning of Eucharist is phenomenal.

[Jenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a series of sermons given on the feast of Corpus Christi over 2 decades. I love how Knox is able to pull the sublime out of the mundane. Each of the sermons starts will the ordinary and slowly brings the Lord into it. This will be a book that I return to again and again.